Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 11 2007, 12:14 AM) [snapback]537936[/snapback]</div>

It did look European ---
Jet d'eau Fountain, Lac Leman, Geneva, Switzerland

Field's open --- (I might post something later but anyone is free to jump in anytime ---)

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Here's a ghostly remnant from Halloween.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 11 2007, 12:01 PM) [snapback]537945[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=U...697632&z=11
Ekka Island in Great Bear Lake,NWT,Canada

 

Is it open? Or do you have a place, mojo?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 11 2007, 11:21 PM) [snapback]538203[/snapback]</div>

This is pretty famous.Aliens landed here.[attachmentid=12421]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 11 2007, 08:43 PM) [snapback]538216[/snapback]</div>

By the boatload in 1964 ---
The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Park, Brooklyn, site of 1964 World's Fair

Whose gotta picture? Anyone gotta picture? My pocket's empty, anyone with a picture let 'er rip ---

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I got a place

<strike>hold on I'll get the image in about 3 mins</strike> got it

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionll @ Nov 12 2007, 02:10 AM) [snapback]538275[/snapback]</div>

Is the tree famous or is the pointer misaligned?

 

No. The pointer is misaligned. The correct location is pointed to by my triangle/arrow thing.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionll @ Nov 12 2007, 04:14 AM) [snapback]538299[/snapback]</div>

Street markings look like California.But I cant find a match for the tint and contrast.
Any clues?Is it the first of a chain ?

 

The place could be a start of a chain (but probably not).

Hint: It is in California

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionll @ Nov 12 2007, 08:29 PM) [snapback]538719[/snapback]</div>

Well, that helped - although I scoured the Bay Area for some time looking for this earlier without success - it didn't occur to me to check a boulevard I know VERY well, the
El Camino Real, here in Millbrae, right next to the SFO Airport BART station

What that building is, however, I haven't the foggiest notion - but tomorrow I could drive down & find out; it's only about 6 miles from work.

A chain that isn't? Nothing snaps into mind.

Meanwhile, I'll leave the field open ---

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 13 2007, 12:04 AM) [snapback]538734[/snapback]</div>

I dont think its a famous place.It could be
Karate-DO USA Millbrae
186 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA
Fashion Nails
180 El Camino Real
La Petite Camille
170 El Camino Real

That was an awfully obscure puzzle.
Heres a California place that everyone knows about.


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The location is Hobby Engineering at 180 El Camino Real Millbrae, CA. I know the owner of the business. I was thinking of giving a hint like "has been mentioned in another thread", but I thought that would give it away completely because I posted Hobby Engineering in the "two words" thread and even said the location. I did not really have reason to post it, it was a completely random thought.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 13 2007, 12:59 AM) [snapback]538753[/snapback]</div>

Its directly related to this nearby place.But this place occurred 37 years earlier.This place is even more famous than the other[attachmentid=12447]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 13 2007, 02:57 AM) [snapback]538781[/snapback]</div>

Heres another related nearby place.Maybe more famous than the previous 2 .This place is made famous 22 years later than the first image ,59 years after the 2nd image.
All are known to you all , related to each other ,and located in the same general area.[attachmentid=12448]

 

OK, let's see, all images are of anonymous tract homes in the same general area, middle class neighborhoods. Since there are no distinguishing features in any of them, the images themselves are superfluous to the solution. Must be some event that happened three times (like an earthquake), 22 and 59 years before the most recent one - but when was the most recent one? Yesterday? 165 years ago? Can you fill us in on that one?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 13 2007, 11:20 AM) [snapback]538904[/snapback]</div>

I was thinking that they were all "related" that it was some kind of famous family. Like the Brown's of Jerry Brown and his father and grandfather.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 13 2007, 08:34 AM) [snapback]538912[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Nov 13 2007, 09:17 AM) [snapback]538933[/snapback]</div>

All very valid hypothesis, which is why we need more information. The 37 year separation could very well be the span between someone's birth and later parenthood.

I find it curious that the MORE famous entries are posted as mere clues to the initial entry - also that the earliest & latest occurrences are more famous than the middle occurrence - I wonder if that in itself is helpful in some way. Hmmm.

Anyway, Mojo, what is the date of the most recent picture, the one that the others are 22 and 59 years separated from?

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